Charge of the recovery act and it was hard as hell to get the votes for it to begin with. And then it was hard as hell to get the number even we got. But one thing we learned, is we cant do too much here. We could do too little. We could do too little and sputter. Real live people are hurting and we could fix it. And we could fix it. That is has been his message from the beginning. And President Biden is focused on this today. Hes expecting to speak live later this hour and on how ep plans to revised the economy in response to covid. And the latest jobs report came out this morning showing only 49,000 jobs were added last month across country. And still there is more. On capitol hill, republican freshman Marjorie Taylor greene, shes about to hold a News Conference and at the moment im going to use the term News Conference loosely as we will see if she actually takes questions from actual real reporters which she has long avoided. Greene now without any Committee Assignments after the h
And lately its proving which. Were talking about technology ocks. Thesi nasdaq com dominated by tech closed at yet another record high today, now on track for the best year in a decade as a matter of fact. Theector as reflected by in etf is up more than 40 so fa this year. And its been helped by a 50 gain in sem conductor stocks and a doubledigit rise it in social media shares. As it happenings the nasdaq was the only of three major indexes to finish higher. Lthe dow f 102 points. Back below 28,000. The s p fell by 1 point. Bob pisani looks closer at techs big run. The markets clearly overbaulgt butot much worry not yet. The major averages chewing in which and eit highsry day. The s p up 10 off 3 trading day this is month. The marketic tecns dont seem crn the market is getting too far ahead of its. There is the fear offis ming out calling it f. Omo. He is that is forefactor the s Technology Store the big leaders in particular. The top ten having big gains above the s p 500. Look. The s
Some tariffs for soy and pork from the u. S they didnt specify quantities involved they imposed 25 tariff since july 2018 in retaliation eunice yoon was up very early it is 12 hours later there. She was up very late. Whatever it was. She was up she tries to figure out what is happening. This is the beginning of some positive that is my take. And futures are up. After thursday when the Chinese Ministry said, look, we are still on track for kauks it would have to be precondition, okay, here, well drop some of ours first and get to you december 15 right . Right i was thinking about how much risk there is to thinking about 10 or 11 months before an election and what could go wrong. We heard about if there could be a recession. He says 2021 what if there was a big market break next year in the stock market you saw what happened a year ago at the holidays. Christmas shopping draops significantly. Where im going with this trying to follow. I know it is hard trump has we are at new highs right
6 00 here are the results just reporting. 2. 53 a share. A penny above estimates. Just short of 27. 52 billion here are the keys for Guidance Company now expects sales to grow by 1. 8 the previous guidance was 2. 3 1. 8 versus 2. 3 comps are 3. 5 previous guidance was around 4 . Lets bring in senior analyst. So the Forward Guidance is below where it was previous . Yes quickly looking at these numbers, there was a sales miss in the quarter also lowering guidance for the rest of the fiscal year. Sales guidance Sales Guidance. Im not sure whether that is a total company or domestic. The street was around five that is a point and a half the street is a full point above where the company had guided the company had guided four. For the quarter ill look at the quarter first the street was around five for the year, the company had previously guided for four they missed roughly a point, point and a half in q 3. They are taking guidance down about 50 basis points. The real message here. It is a
Housing data rebounded with Building Permits at their highest levels in 12 years we are set once again for record time close on the nasdaq anything positive, of course, is a record the s p has just dipped negative the dow has been negative for most of the afternoon. Joining us for the full first hour of the show, steve weiss from short Hill Capital Partners steve, very good to see you. How you doing . Good to see you what stands out as to whether or not were going to issee a meaningful move higher or lower . Its all about trade. Home depots announcement aside, which wasnt terrible wasnt terrible or was terrible was not terrible. And the stocks appropriately are saying, theres lots of people buying it into the earnings. And home depot, lets face it, theyve delivered remarkably over the last decade, particularly since new management came in but i dont think its really a referendum this report on the health of the consumer, which is what the market is based upon. And appropriately, were b